International Team Project: Argentina and Uruguay - Research Checklist

Introduction

Prepared for International Team Project: Argentina and Uruguay at Northwestern University School of Law, Spring 2012, by Irene Berkey, Foreign and International Law Librarian, and updated by Heidi Kuehl, Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Librarian and Coordinator of Educational Programming and Outreach.

Note: The law library does not collect materials on Latin American countries in vernacular languages. Materials in this checklist are primarily in English, unless otherwise noted.

Argentina Law Digest, in Martindale-Hubbell International Law Digest. Detailed summary of various areas of law, especially useful for company, corporate, and tax law. LexisNexis Legal > Find Laws by Country or Region > Foreign Laws & Legal Sources > Argentina > Martindale-Hubbell® Law Digest – South American Law Digests. Also Uruguay.

Constitution

The Constitutions of the Argentine Nation. Constitutions of the Countries of the World , vol. 3 (loose-leaf) I,MON K 3157 .A2B58 1971- Also available electronically (Search for " Argentina" or “Uruguay” in "Location" box.) 1994 Argentine Constitution in English and 1996 Amendments to Uruguay Constitution in English. Also “Introductory Note: Constitutional History and Political Background” for Argentina.

Argentine Constitutions Political Database of the Americas, Georgetown University. The 1853 Constitution with the 1860, 1866, 1898 and 1957 reforms, in Spanish, and the 1994 Constitution, in English and Spanish. Uruguay Constitution is also available in Spanish.

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